Jersey Boys (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (484)
See it if Four blue collar boys from New Jersey become a music phenomenon along with the changing dynamics/relationships in the group.
Don't see it if you don’t like the Four Seasons music/Juke box musicals.
See it if You want to hear some familiar songs and a feel good show
Don't see it if You are looking more of a story
See it if You love concerts as this show has scenes of concerts and it makes you feel like you were at their gig
Don't see it if Sad stories
See it if you enjoy Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons songs - although, I didn't realize some of these songs are from them.
Don't see it if you have never heard any of their songs. Read more
See it if If you love the music this is a no brainer
Don't see it if Nothing really
See it if You enjoy the music of the Four Seasons and would enjoy learning more about their story. Or, just like an enjoyable night out!
Don't see it if If you aren't a fan of jukebox musicals or the music of the Four Seasons.
See it if you love Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and are interested in the story of the band.
Don't see it if you don't like the band's music and want something more fast paced
See it if you want to spend an evening listening to all the biggest hits of the Four Seasons amidst a very detailed biographical narrative.
Don't see it if you don’t want to watch an- at times- overly detailed biopic of the Four Seasons, in which they play all the big hits but not always in full
Critic Reviews (8)
Consolation comes in watching the newcomer Ben Joyce — who only graduated from drama school this year — make such a fine job of the Valli vocals.
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“Klara Zieglerova’s bi-fold scaffold set keeps the show rooted in industrial blue-collar New Jersey, while Michael Clark’s projections of Roy Lichtenstein-aping cartoons wittily mirror the action. You don’t need much else: the music is the big draw, bolstered by Sergio Trujillo’s finger-clicking, step-digging, impeccably synchronised choreography. It’s just too good to be true.”
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Not hard to see why this ran over 11 years on Broadway then immediately transferred to a smaller Off-Broadway house, "Oh What A Night" indeed.
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Jersey Boys may have seemed like a reliably safe choice for the handsomely refurbished Trafalgar Theatre. But this production stretches out like an over-earnest tribute act that has been asked to fill an extra hour on stage.
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Rather, Jersey Boys embodies the qualities of the band itself: unpretentious, uncomplicated, a bit cheesy and, with its by-numbers rags to riches narrative, steeped in the comforting mythology of the American dream.
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“Still a crowd pleaser and a genuinely good time at the theatre, ‘Jersey Boys’ proves time and time again why it has become such a success...the show is a great deal of fun and will continue to have an audience for as long as nostalgia is strong – that is to say, it will always have an audience.”
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Jersey Boys is a musical that efficiently delivers a cracking story and a seemingly endless catalogue of hit songs.
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...after all the upheaval the theatre scene has suffered during the last year and a half, if this musical succeeds in placing bums back in seats (and even getting some bums to wiggle down the aisles), then I can’t fault that.
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